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Date:      Sun, 14 Sep 1997 22:05:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Sunthiti Patchararungruang <stt@pluto.cpe.ku.ac.th>
Subject:   Re: Need Help about BPF
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970914220348.217A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19970913221342.BV60285@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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By the way --- rarpd is broken, occasionally it will not answer rarp
requests for no good reason for some diskless workstations i have using
rarp (don't worry my freebsd ones are using bootp) and i have to restart
it to get it to work.



On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Sunthiti Patchararungruang wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sir,
> 
> Probably many of them here. :)
> 
> > 	Someone in FreeBsd.org told me that I should use BPF. I rarely
> > have the document about it, only have BPF(4) man-page and BPF data in
> > ftp.ee.lbl.gov. If you also recommend BPF, please tell me where I can find
> > the information about it.
> 
> Well, your problem isn't quite clear to me.  Anyway, if you intend to
> send some arbitrary packets down to the wire, have a look at the
> implementation of rarpd(8) (in /usr/src/usr.sbin/rarpd/), i think it's
> doing a similar job.
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 




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